Mora Knife Legacy

The model was first introduced in 1955 by FMM (The first time it appeared in a catalog was in the 1959 FMM catalog) FMM Catalog 1959 The design of the knife is not original, it was very popular in the EUA, by the name of " Original Buffalo Skinner " with many variants made by multiple companies:  Solingen Cutlers such as Puma, Othello (A. Wingen Jr.) Linder, F.A Bower, C Schlieper (and many, many more) but I cannot verify who was the initial maker of this style of knife. Most probably, FMM saw an opportunity to do business in EUA and copied the popular model. When FMM closed the knife business , the model is transferred to Hallin&Co . We can see it in the unpublished  catalog of the company from 1962.  ABMorakniar unpublished catalog from 1961 The 650 finally ends up in the KJE catalog where it gets renumbered to 1700 with some modifications On the bottom the FMM N. 650 and on top  KJE N.1700  KJE 1975 Catalogue.  The final production of ...

Online resources for AB Moraknivar Hallin & Co. are scarce. (Hållams) Jannes (Andersson) Hallin was born on November 14, 1875, and passed away in 1942. Jannes Hallin started selling knives around Färnäs in the late 1800s, working with Sol-Nils Olsson. More info https://oldmora.blogspot.com/2020/05/sol-nils-olsson.html Jannes was known as Knussel, which translates to hustler, while Sol-Nils was known as Black, which means broke or impoverished man).  In 1930, Hållams-Johannes Andersson and Rudolf Berling founded J.HALLIN in Färnäs, east of Mora. Throughout the 1930s, the business was known as HALLIN & Co., and finally AB MORAKNIVAR until its demise.  Eventually, most likely following his father's passing, Johannes Hallin (born 1909-11-05) assumed control of the business.  Johannes Hallin Photo: 1910s Ref: https://peterhager.tripod.com/1909.htm  Print from Swedish industrial calendar - 1947 From the 1957 catalog "To the esteemed customer service, we h...